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17.488 Simulating Global Dynamics and War
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
Units: 3-0-9
Lecture: M10-1 (E53-438)![]()
Explores the history, tools, and utility of crisis simulations and war games that model international dynamics. Aims to develop toolkits for future worlds exercises and for the production of conference papers and peer-reviewed publications. Students review historical debates about gaming and simulation methods while gaining experience designing and playing different kinds of exercises, including technical operational games, computerized rapid play games, nuclear crisis games, and global dynamics simulations.
R. Samuels, E. Heginbotham
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